Atom has exploded. Man thats fun to report.
The server locked up today at 9:17 until 10:03 and was out for a little less than an hour.
You will have to restart any servers hosted on the following IPs:
174.142.97.13
174.142.98.73
174.142.98.74
174.142.98.75
174.142.98.76
174.142.98.77
174.142.98.78
A required update for Left 4 Dead 2 is now available. Please run hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include:
- Fixed performance problem when rendering lots of decals, notably when fighting tanks with shotguns
- Fixed rcon response not working on Linux dedicated servers
- Fixed matchmaking problem matching into Advanced and Expert games
- Fix bug that would cause other specials to try to pummel a player a Charger disconnects or reconnects
- Fixed versus mode results panel being cut off in transition stats screen in non-english
- Found games: fixed non-player entries drawing the wrong type of icon in the selected item name label
- Game mode selector on main menu now takes keyboard input
Reboot your servers and the patch will take effect automatically! If you have problems updating, just let the staff know.
The most common question we get is: “What kind of hardware do you run?”. I want to address that here.
The answer is that it varies. There are a lot of factors with hosting game servers. Some are multi-threaded and some are not. For example if I purchased a system with four dual core pentium 4s, no one core would be enough to run any 500FPS server with more than a few slots. That would suck.
Also, hardware evolves. There are some triple core systems that outperform quad cores which also leaves us room to put bigger servers on a core. The whole core system of measurement is really worth nothing.
Furthermore, I could also be buying 64bit quad core i7 boxes with 32 gigs of ram but then putting 700 servers on the system, causing it to swap and run like crap. Maximum server power really means nothing either, you see.
With all that said, we purchase 32bit systems (more mods run on 32bit) with 4gigs of ram. We purchase multi-core processors that are no more than a year old at the date of purchase. We tend to go AMD because they bench higher for less money. The optimized srcds binary also seems to run a tad better, too. We don’t run our servers above 50% utilization to be sure that even in peak times, nobody lags anywhere. FWIW I run intel at home for 3D gaming.
As for backbone, on the site it shows we run a 100.00% network SLA at our coloctation facility which has redundant 50Gbit uplinks. As for FPS settings and tick rates, we run a 66 tick rate standard, which is double the default and we run a minimum of 350 FPS which is also more than any other game server host I’ve ever seen online.
Now you know… stop asking!
We’ve created and released two automatic installer scripts for our TF2 customers who want ManiMod and SourceMod on their server. Simply follow the instructions in the forum link below to execute the bash scripts which does the rest!
Its the easiest way to install manimod or soucemod for sure!
http://forum.hostedgameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=52
http://forum.hostedgameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=53
If you need help, you can always contact [email protected]
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Left 4 Dead 2 servers are going like hotcakes! Use the promo page at here and enter promo code ‘survivorswillfall’ to get a special 10 dollar a month Left 4 Dead 2 Game Server subscription! That beats the competition into the ground!
You’ve practically no reason not to! Save humanity (that is, if the survivors aren’t infected hosts)
Because we’re such nice guys here, we’ve decided to offer users whom currently subscribe to a Left 4 Dead server to upgrade to a Left 4 Dead 2 server! Oh yeah, we know that its cheaper if you already have a Left 4 Dead server… but we won’t charge you the difference. You’re good to upgrade as our way of saying thanks for being awesome (all of our customers are awesome after all).
Just hop over to the support page and let us know you’re interested in upgrading your Left 4 Dead server to Left 4 Dead 2.
Yes, we will catch you if you’re trying to quickly buy a Left 4 Dead server and up it to Left 4 Dead 2 – silly exploiters!
Whoo!
To better our keyword focusing for ‘game servers’, I made a directory on the web server called ‘game_servers’ which now holds all the game pages. This means that every game’s unique URL has they keywords game and servers in it! That should help once it kicks in.
To further seal the deal, I added some rewrites on the web server to redirect any hits on the old page locations to the new ones in the game_servers subdirectory.
For example, http://www.hostedgameservers.com/counter-strike-source-server.php is now http://www.hostedgameservers.com/game_servers/counter-strike-source-server.php
Hosted Game Servers has launched! HostedGameServers.com now supports the following game servers:
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Counter-Strike: Source
Day of Defeat: Source
Day of Defeat
Call of Duty 4
Team Fortress Classic
Team Fortress Forever
Team Fortress 2
Counter-Strike
Empires Mod
Killing Floor
Hosted Game Servers also provides special custom servers like nobody else. It is possible to buy an out of the box half-life 2 server and upload any mod you like for game play. To allow mods like these, HostedGameServers.com gives its customers access to lots of ways to control their server. The basic control panel grants the user a web interface for managing their game server files and configs as well as the ability to start, stop and restart your server.
However, if you’re a savvy game server subscriber, you can take full advantage of SSH and FTP access to the server.
Hosted Game Server’s prices are lower than every other competitor for the sheer reason that they are passionate about gaming. Everyone in the staff is a gamer and always will be. Games are more than a job for us, they are our passion. Hosting kick ass servers is our pride!
Hosted Game Servers (HGS)
http://www.HostedGameServers.com
Hosted Game Servers is Located in Montreal, Canada with powerful
piers to provide low pings for the entire USA.